It's yersel' knows the tinder feet that's on me since ever I 've bin in this counthry. The Universal Reciter Various You see I have the tinder now safely secured in my tinder-box. The Story of a Tinder-box Charles Meymott Tidy I want one of these sparks, if I can persuade it to do so, to fall on my tinder.
Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) was an American general who commanded the Southwest Pacific in World War II (1939-1945), oversaw the successful Allied occupation of postwar Japan and led United Nations forces in the Korean War (1950-1953).
Young Douglas soon learned that a MacArthur must first become a scholar and gentleman. At the age of six, Douglas transferred with his family to Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, then three years later to Washington, D.C. , where Captain MacArthur took a post in the War Department.